Project Purposes and Goals

1. To establish a central depository/archive for stories and photographs about Vancouver’s West End2. To publish electronic and hard copy accounts of growing up in the West End of Vancouver3. To help celebrate and enhance the 100th Anniversary of King George High School4. To preserve the memories, events and relationships of earlier generations5. To facilitate intergenerational dialogue among West Enders6. To involve current children and youth in writing their own personal histories of growing up in the West End7. To reconnect old school mates, teachers and parents who went to school in the West End8. To provide a full, rich pictorial and literary history of life in the West End9. To provide an outlet for the creative talents of many people who were youth in the West End10. To provide an ongoing virtual gathering of West Enders11. To provide an opportunity for people to express their joys and sadness of growing up in the West End12. To give voice to people of the West End about their experiences in life in Canada’s most populous one square mile13. To add to the cultural history of the West End, the City of Vancouver, and the Province of British Columbia